Marina Re

Since graduating magna cum laude with a theatre degree from Brooklyn College, Marina Re has been an award-winning professional actor for four decades. Her performances have earned her a Desert Star Award (Outstanding Lead Actress as Maria Callas in Master Class), a CT Critics Circle Award (Outstanding Lead Actress as Abby Binder in Ripcord), a Desert Star Award (Best Supporting Actress as Norma in La Gringa), and an IRNE Award (Best Supporting Actress as Warden in Holes).

She started her career in Boston as a member of the Boston Shakespeare Company, the Merrimack Repertory Company, and as a member of Shear Madness at the Charles Playhouse. She spent seven seasons with Israel Horovitz's Gloucester Stage Company, in addition to working at all the major theatres in the area including the Huntington Theatre, the Lyric Stage, Worcester Foothills, and the Jewish Theatre of New England. For ten consecutive years, her performances were cited "Best of Year" by Boston critics, being named "Favorite Local Actor" by the Boston Phoenix in 1996.

Since returning to New York City, she has been working Off Broadway at La Mama, NY Classical, Bleecker Street, Abington Theatre, Lion Theatre at Theatre Row, and HB Studio Playwrights Theatre. Her extensive regional theater work has included Two River Theatre, CentreStage, ACCC, Florida Studio Theatre, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Vineyard Playhouse, and Peterborough Players, among many others. She toured the USA with the Tony Award-winning National Theatre of the Deaf in "Oh, Figaro!" She has done both feature and independent films, national and local TV shows, industrial videos, and many voiceovers and commercials.

On screen, Marina appeared as the Italian Housekeeper in the Miramax feature film Confess, Fletch, directed by Greg Mottola and starring Jon Hamm and Marcia Gay Harden. She has also lent her voice to the podcast The OPC, playing Ruth Wallaby for writer-director Megan Simard, and appeared as Faye in the indie short Teddy's Dollhouse (KKaan Prod., Daryl Denner, dir.), which screened at the Manhattan Film Festival.

Marina grew up in Brooklyn, NY, and is one of 12 siblings. Her life partner for decades was Paul D'Amato, known primarily for his performances as "Dr. Hook" in Slap Shot — the inspiration for Marvel Comics' "Wolverine" — and as the Green Beret in The Deer Hunter. Paul passed away in 2024.